Non Fiction The Total Library Quotes & Sayings

It was as if, from 1967 on, for several years, two different tribes of Americans experienced the same outward events but experienced them as two quite different realities. — Godfrey Hodgson

Just because we are carriers doesn't mean that we have to live without conscience. The minute we forget that, the minute it's every man for himself ... then all is lost. We've become the monsters they say we are. — Sophie Jordan

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. — Auguste Rodin

My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out. — Bill Condon

I try to win the love and approval of strangers, since it didn't work with my family. — Judy Gold

I mostly played 'Pac-Man', but I played 'The Sims' with my kids when they were growing up. — Lea Thompson

Waiting is not wasting. It is a strategy for champing for greater things. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Just when had I become so self-absorbed? I was a form of self-preservation, I realized now; I had resolved that ... I could survive Colonel Wood's cruelty if my heart, my mind, had shrunk to a size designed to absorb my own troubles only. — Melanie Benjamin

The process of life is ever unfolding, guiding you, pushing you, preparing you for the next part of the process. Difficult challenges, bad days, upset feelings, moments of confusion are part of life's process. Perhaps these things are there to keep us alert, to make us stronger, or to test our resolve to keep moving forward. — Iyanla Vanzant

But I am influenced by the world that says I influence it. The world I live in is my influence. — Kenzo Takada

His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further. — Jorge Luis Borges

[I]t was as if I had been strolling absentmindedly and banged into a door. — Elena Ferrante

One doesn't know one's self what grain one sows, that works on and on, through one and through many lives, transmitted from heart to heart and from lips to lips. — Elisabeth Of Wied

There are 316 million people in the United States of America. About six million of them watch 'Homeland,' Showtime's thriller about world terror, paranoia, and bipolar disorder. That's about 2 percent of the population; roughly what the guy with the beard running on the Libertarian Party ticket gets when he runs for Congress. — Stephen Rodrick